QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Baruch Harold Wood (1909,† 04.04.1989), an English player and journalist who was the owner and the chief editor of ‘Chess Magazine’.
Pastor Rivas (1960), a Spanish Grandmaster, he was Spanish Champion in 1978, 1979, 1981 and 1991.
Evgeny Prokopchuk (1978), a Russian Grandmaster.
Duc Hoa Nguyen, a Vietnamese Grandmaster.
Alexander Bagrationi, (1990), a Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Khayala Abdulla (1993), an Azerbaijani Women Grandmaster.

CHESS EVENTS

1930. The 3rd Olympiad opened in Hamburg, Germany with 18 national teams. There had never been so many Grandmasters gathered together in one place. It included also the World Champion Alexander Alekhine who played for France for the first time.
1972 The clock was started for the second game, but Fischer was not on the board. Fox quickly agreed that the cameras be removed for at least for that game. Fischer agreed to play provided his clock was reset to zero. The arbiter L. Schmid refused and forfeited the Challenger after one hour.
2004 In Tripoli, Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan beat Michael Adams of England in the first tie-break game and drew game 2 to win the World Championship Final Match.

WORLD EVENTS

1793  Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
1854  In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.
1863  New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
1878  Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
1919  The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
1973  Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the “Nixon tapes” to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break-in.
2011  Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY